Navigation in mammals including humans and rodents depends on specialized neural networks that encode the animal's location and trajectory in the environment, serving essentially as a GPS, findings ...

Neuroscientists from Bonn, New York, and Freiburg discover interactions between so-called "ripples" and nerve cells during human memory processes Spatial navigation and spatial memory play a central ...

Study reveals how navigation and memory are linked, with a stable brain compass helping keep memories organized over time.

People who are stressed out have a harder time orienting themselves. A new study used neuroimaging to reveal why this happens ...

Combining virtual reality and non-invasive deep-brain electrical stimulation, researchers have improved healthy individuals’ spatial memory – the kind that helps you remember where you left the car ...

New research reveals that while our memory centers are constantly shifting, our internal compass remains frozen in time to ...

As we age, it becomes more difficult to remember where things are—whether it’s recalling where we left the keys or where we parked the car. This spatial memory deteriorates further with the onset of ...

A study has investigated the possible scenarios that could lead to waning memory in some older people. Aging becomes apparent in various ways, one of them being changes in memory function. But some ...